Before and after images: This is how Hurricane Dorian devastated the Bahamas

One week after Hurricane Dorian devastated the Bahamas, residents struggled amid the ruins Sunday, with many forced to seek refuge far from their shattered homes as the death toll from the top-intensity storm hit 44 in the islands. Dorian, now classified as a post-tropical storm, caused "severe damage" in eastern Canada and was expected to move soon into the North Atlantic after cutting a destructive swath through the Bahamas and going up the US east coast. In the Bahamas, people were still scrambling for shelter, with the lucky evacuees beginning to reunite with loved ones but the fate of uncounted others still in doubt.

In this October 25, 2018 satellite photo provided by Maxar Technologies, shows the northwest area of Marsh Harbor, Great Abaco, Bahamas, before the passage of Hurricane Dorian. (Satellite image Maxar Technologies via AP)

By far the greatest devastation caused by the storm was in the Bahamas, where Dorian struck a week ago as a Category 5 hurricane with 185 mph (295 kph) winds, and then hovered just offshore for more than a day and a half, obliterating thousands of homes.(Satellite image Maxar Technologies via AP)

In this October 25, 2018 satellite photo provided by Maxar Technologies, shows the Leonard Thompson International Airport, in Great Abaco, Bahamas, almost a year before it was ravaged by the forces of Hurricane Dorian. (Satellite image Maxar Technologies via AP)

Planes, cruise ships and yachts were evacuating people from the Abaco Islands and officials were trying to reach areas still isolated by flooding and debris. (Satellite image Maxar Technologies via AP)

In this October 25, 2018 satellite photo provided by Maxar Technologies, shows Marsh Harbor, Great Abaco, Bahamas, almost a year before the passage of Hurricane Dorian. (Satellite image Maxar Technologies via AP)

Bahamas residents said conditions on the devastated islands were brutal, and that the smell of unrecovered bodies, along with mounting piles of garbage, was oppressive and unsanitary. (Satellite image Maxar Technologies via Reuters)

Hundreds or even thousands of people were still missing, officials said, as rescue teams continued their grim retrievals. (Satellite image Maxar Technologies via AP)

An overview of northern Marsh Harbour on Great Abaco Island is pictured before Hurricane Dorian in The Bahamas in this October 25, 2018 satellite handout photo. (Satellite image Maxar Technologies via Reuters)

The agency said it was setting up shelters or temporary housing for the newly homeless across the islands and appealed for Bahamians to take in storm victims. (Satellite image Maxar Technologies via AP)